Dalton is facing the noose when a lucky break gives him a chance of freedom. He adopts a dead man's identity, but quickly discovers he's made a bad choice when he finds his namesake had been hired to lead a wagon train of settlers on a perilous journey to their new life.

Dalton must become the guide the settlers want him to be although he has no knowledge of the terrain or the dangers lurking ahead. And as if that wasn't bad enough, the notorious Spitzer gang is on their trail, a mysterious stranger may know his identity and one of the settlers is a killer.

With the odds so stacked against him, can Dalton pull off the greatest bluff of his life?